evolved from “backward” to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … by the reform of the regulations governing Brazil's securities markets in 1890. This analysis is based on panel data … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …

assess the empirical performance of Ricardo's ideas. We use novel agricultural data that describe the productivity in 17 … the productivity of each parcel of land in all crops, not just those that are currently being grown. This direct … information about relative productivity differences across economic activities allows us to compute, for the first time, the …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural … productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …